The housing market collapse is taking more bank victims. You can protect your money and avoid needless hassle by knowing the safety rating of your bank.
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Washington Mutual may be in a death spiral, losing $3.3 billion in the second quarter…admitting to losses of as much as $19 billion this year…and probably on...
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Archive for July, 2008
Better Than FDIC Insurance is Avoiding a Bank Failure by Knowing Bank Ratings in Advance
While Financial Woes are Forcing Many Banks to Put Breaks on New Commercial Loans – Borrowers are Using a New Resource to Find Financing
News headlines of late are filled with bad news about mega losses for banks, investment firms and the GSEs…
Earlier this month we saw IndyMac Bank taken over by regulators. With assets of $32 billion as of March 31, it was the second-largest institution to go down in U.S. history. Resolving the failure won't be...
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Housing Values Could Plunge Another 43% Through 2010
Housing values could plunge another 43-percent through 2010 and what to do about it!
Dr. Robert Schiller, the same bestselling author and Stanford economist who called the tech stock bust back in 2001, recently analyzed 116 years of U.S. housing-data and “ain’t a pretty picture.”
Take a look at this chart showing what he discovered…
It's...
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